Review – Transformers

I think this is the noisiest movie I’ve ever seen. When you’ve got giant robots busily transforming back and forth between their true forms and their disguises as various easy-to-sell-to-pre-teen-boys vehicles, naturally they make quite a racket. But the dialogue is delivered with the same frantic urgency. Characters rush their lines and talk over one another like people with pre-paid cell phone plans who are about to run out of minutes. The script is fairly minimal, leaving the action sequences to do most of the work. A few years ago the transforming and fighting would have been genuinely impressive, but by now we’re all accustomed to what computer animation can do. So if you’ve got a fidgety five year old on your hands, this might keep him quiet for awhile (though perhaps not for the whole two-and-a-half hour running time, which was difficult to sit through even for those of us with longer attention spans). See if desperate